9th Circuit Finds Oregon’s Ban On Secret Recordings Violates 1st Amendment

(July 7, 2023, 11:26 AM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — An Oregon law that prohibits the unannounced recording of most conversations is a content-based restriction on speech that runs afoul of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel majority found, reversing a trial court’s dismissal of two media organizations’ claims of free speech violations and deeming the statute to be invalid on its face....